Linea Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium
Linea Art Fair, Gent, Belgium
There was another very interesting event that took place in the same year- the participation of the Maritime Gallery in the European Line Art Gent festival in Belgium. Fulfilling the order for painting in Brugge at the Hotel de Medici, Radu and I did not live in an ordinary hotel room, we stay in a guest house, where on the ground floor was located office. It was there that I found in the promotional materials the booklet of the Expo-Belgian Exhibition Company. Among various industrial exhibitions, I found the Linea Art Fair.I brought the booklet with me to Odessa and my daughter Rada and I wrote a letter there. We were answered and sent the conditions for participation in the fair. I showed them to Nikolai Pavluk, and he, being an extraordinary person, immediately agreed that the gallery will take part in this event.Imagine the incredible difficulties with the delivery of paintings from Ukraine, this company would most likely be impossible at a cost. But at that time we still had my paintings from the exhibition at the Hotel de Medici, and it was with them that I decided for the first time to try to participate in the Festival.Our daughter Rada Binovska, who turned 17 this year and who by that time had a good command of English, became, by the decision of the father, my partner in this enterprise.Of course, for her, this was an event that completely changed her whole life. I can’t say that everything that happened didn’t make an incredible impression on me either.
We stayed with Steven Van Balberghe, a guy whom I met with Radu working at the Hotel de Medici. He gladly invited us in his house and helped us in everything. Every morning he drove us from Bruges to Ghent, and in the evening he took us and brought back. We are still immensely grateful to Stephen!
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